About

About the instructors

Stephan Kadauke, MD, PhD (he/him) is the Associate Director of the Cell Based Therapy Laboratory in the Department of Pathology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and the Medical Director of the Cell and Gene Therapy Informatics Team. He leads efforts to build and deploy predictive models and other data products to improve the care of children receiving bone marrow transplants and other cell therapies. Stephan developed a curriculum in Reproducible Clinical Data Analysis tailored for physicians and other healthcare professionals. He is passionate about using data to improve the care of children.

Rich Hanna, MS (he/him) is a Data Scientist with the Cell and Gene Therapy Informatics Team at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He develops software tools and data-driven solutions to support cell therapy research and enhance patient care in pediatric medicine. Rich has a background in biomedical and mechanical engineering and specializes in automating clinical research workflows through advanced analytics and machine learning. He is passionate about leveraging data science to streamline healthcare operations and improve patient outcomes.